Conduit for cable railways



(No Model.)

E. G.-PHILLIP S. GONDUIT FOB. GABLE RAILWAYS.

Patented Apr. 2, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELWOOD C. PHILLIPS, OF GARDEN CITY, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PHIL- LIPS ECONOMICAL CABLE GRIP CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CO NDUIT FOR CABLE RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,482, dated April 2, 1889.

Application filed December 26, 1888. Serial No. 294,705. (No model.) i

- To ail whom it 11mg concern: bish falling through the opening a will go into 50 Be it known that I, ELwooD C. PHILLIPS, the pocket B and not into the space A, cona citizen of the United States, residing at Garstituting the body of the conduit. N evertheden City, in the county of Finney and State less a slight inclination of the shank of the of Kansas, have invented certain new and usegripping devices will enable it to avoid said ful Improvements in Conduits for Cable Railwall C. There is thus no need for the awk- 55 ways; and I do hereby declare the following ward bending nearly at right angles, which to be a full, clear, and exact description of the has been necessary with conduits opening at invention, such as will enable others skilled the side. As each section of the entire conto in the art to which it appertains tomake and duit is in one piece, the wall C being cast use the same. therewith, strength and simplicity are at- 66 This inventionrelates to conduitsfor cable tained in the highest degree. railways provided with a dirt receptacle or. As shown in Fig. 2, I sometimes construct pocket under a top opening for the grip, the the opening a with a downward flare to in- 15 main chamber of the conduit not being disure the passage through itof earth and rubrectly below said opening. bish, the said opening being also faced with 65 The said invention consists in such a consteel plates D asa protection against wear or duit having an inwardly-extending wall beother injury to the cast metal at the sides of low said opening, the hollow interior of the said conduit. These plates are provided with conduit being enlarged on one side above said outwardly-extending screw-threaded studs d,

wall to form a pocket, into which said-wall which pass through in the raised side walls, 70 directs the earth and rubbish falling through a, of said opening and act as bolts to hold, said opening. said plates in place, being secured by nuts The said invention also consists in certain f. Fig. 2 also shows the conduit provided additional improvements in construction, with wings E, cast therewith, extending to hereinafter set forth and claimed equal distances on each side of opening a, 75

- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 repand having near their ends flattened upper resents a vertical cross-section of one form of faces or tables, F, on which paving-blocks or my conduit, and Fig. 2 represents a similar other roadway material may be laid, or they View of another form thereof. "may be used for supporting the rails of the In either case each section of the conduit car track. Terminal shoulders F, raised 80 is made in a single casting, the opening afor above these tables, will hold said rails in pothe shank of the cable-grip being in thetop sition and aid in preventing the lateral disthereof on one side of the middle line of the placementof any section of the conduit what- 3 5 space A, in which is the cable. This space ever may be placed thereon. The steel plates fills the greater part of the interior of the cast- D are provided with horizontal top flanges, 85 ing; but the upper part of it communicates D, extending over the raised side walls, a, on one side with a pocket, B, formed in the of opening a to protect said walls and afford upper part of said casting and extending out a broad surface. The wings E add symmetry 40 sidewise beyond the line of space A. The into the appearance of the conduit seen from ner part of this pocket is above a part of said above. The raised side walls, a, (shown in 0 space, but is separated therefrom by a wall, both figures,) are useful in excluding from 0, cast with said conduit, which extends obopening a the earth at the sides of them. For liquely upward and inward from the side of greater security against earth entering the the casing, preferably ina curved line, formspace A, I extend the plate D downward,

ing a part of the bottom of said pocket and as shown in Fig. 1, to form a guide-lip, H, op- 5 the inner wall thereof. The opening a is diposite the tip of wall C, said wall bending uprectly above this wall C or the bottom of the ward to a point, as shown. pocket at its base, so that the earth and rub- I, Fig. 2, designates a pair of arms extending from the material of the conduit at the lower part of space A inward and upward toward each other, and having on their proximate ends bearings z' for the shaft j of a grooved roller, J, which supports the cable K. There are as many of such rollers as may be necessary to conveniently support said cable arranged at suitable intervals. These arms and rollers may of course be used with either form of conduit which I have shown, or with any suitable form. This is also true of the steel plates D.

The conduit may be of wrought metal instead of cast metal but its construction would then be more difficult and expensive.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A conduit for cable railways, having an opening in the top for the shank of the cablegrip and a pocket in the upper part of the conduit below said opening for catching the earth and rubbish which fall through the latter and preventing them from descending to the cable and the gripping devices, and the space for the latterbein g separated from said pocket by a wall inclining obliquely upward and also inwardly with regard to said space, substantially as set forth.

2. A conduit for cable railways, having the main space A for the cable and gripping devices, the pocket B in the upper part of said conduit, the curved wall 0, extending obliquely between them and the opening (l in the top of said conduit above said wall, substantially as set forth.

3. A conduit having an opening in its top and an inwardly-extending wall below said opening integral with said conduit, the hollow interior of said conduit being enlarged on one side above said wall to form apocket, into which said wall directs the earth and rubbish falling through said opening, substantially as set forth.

4. A conduit having an opening in its top, a pocket for receiving the earth and rubbish which may fall through the same, and a downwardly-extending lip or corner on one side of said opening to aid in directing said earth or rubbish into said pocket, substantially as set forth.

5. A conduit having a main space, A, for the cable, a pocket, B, obliquely above the same, an opening, a, above said pocket, a wall, 0, extending obliquely upward between said pocket and the main space of said conduit, and a lip extending downward on the same side of opening a, in order that said lip and wall may combine to direct dirt and rubbish into said pocket, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELVVOOD C. PHILLIPS.

Vitnesses:

KOSSUTH MORGNER, E. B. MORGNER. 

